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The violin: its famous makers and their imitators, 1909
17 lines. Read by computer on 27 September 2026. Printed page 471. See the scan on archive.org.
1Blissful, yet laden as with twenty prayers,
2That Juno yearned with no diviner soul,
3To the first burthen of the lips of Jove.
4 Th' exceeding mystery of the loveliness
5Sadden'd delight; and with his mournful look
6Dreary and gaunt, hanging his pallid face
7'Twixt his dark flowing locks, he almost seemed
8Too feeble, or, to melancholy eyes,
9One that has parted with his soul for pride,
10And in the sable secret lived forlorn."
12"'To show the depth and identicalness of the impression which he made upon everybody, foreign or native, an Italian who stood near me said to himself, after a sigh, 'O Dio!' and this had not been said long when another person, in the same manner, uttered 'O Christ!' Musicians pressed forward from behind the scenes to get as close to him as possible; and they could not sleep at night for thinking of him.'—Timbs's Anecdote Biography.
14THACKERAY ON ORCHESTRAL MUSIC.
16"I wish I were a poet; you should have a description of all this in verse, and welcome. But if I were a musician! Let us see what we should do as musicians. First, you should hear the distant sound of a bugle, which sound should float away; that is one of the heralds of the morning, flying southward. Then another should issue from the eastern gates; and now the grand réveille should grow, sweep past your ears (like the wind aforesaid), go on, dying as it goes. When, as it dies, my
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